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Questions?????
What is success? What are the different types of success? What are the limitations of success? Whether God is interested in your success?? What does bible talk about success? Does trials and tribulations make you successful or failure? What is the ultimate success?
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Meaning

Success is most commonly defined as the continuous accomplishment of personal goals.

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Secular Success

Most of these resources are valuable for Christians and non-Christians alike. Most books, tapes and seminars will give purchasers a momentary high. However, without any lasting change in their beliefs or habits, they will tend to float from one resource to the next, looking for their next fix.
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Secular Success
And there are many secular methods for achieving success. All one needs to do is look at the likes of Donald Trump, Michael Dell or Bill Gates, Ambani, Mittal, Steve Jobs to see great examples of people who have become successful with one or more variations of these methods. And all of them accomplished great things in the world of business Unfortunately, most Christians see this secular path as providing the sum total of what is required to hasten them toward their own desired goals in life. The only thing these Christians add to the mix is an occasional prayer to God for help and guidance. Apart from these few momentary prayers, they ultimately do nothing more than retrace the same seven steps to success that the rest of the world has followed since time began.
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New Age Success

Some people use more than psychology to achieve their goals. Their methods include reaching farther into the spiritual abyss for their strength and power. Instead of going to their Father in heaven for assistance, they embark on a mystical quest which circumvents the Lord, and they inevitably seek aid from spiritual powers whose sole purpose is to distract unwary success seekers away from God. Satans only goal is to make sure that every person on earth dies without a Savoir. He will continue playing The Game of Distraction throughout your lifetime, approaching you constantly from different angles, and with different lures. As a result, you may end up perpetually chasing his bait until the day you die. It is a game of which the devil never tires.
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The Limitations of Success Training

Psalms 40:4 says, How blessed is the man who has made the Lord his trust, and has not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood. Total success must accompany a general attitude of well being. The fact is that success in one area of your life will go un-enjoyed if other areas of your life are in a state of disintegration.
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Successful Servant hood

As a Christian, you are given the liberty to choose any success program you wish. Whats more, you are free to eclectically choose various ingredients from several different schools of thought. But be warned when you use either secular or new age methods to plot your course toward your personal goals, you are on your own. Understand that your Father in heaven will only help you do what He promised to help you do nothing more. Therefore, your choice of motivational teachers is simple God, or this years best selling author.

Successful Servant hood is based entirely on your relationship to your Father in heaven.

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Successful Servant hood

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The Many Faces of Success

If God blessed you, would you regard this as success? If God answered your prayers, would you count this as success as well? If you were rich in the Kingdom of God, would you think of yourself as a successful Christian? If you received something that God promised, would you consider this to be a successful moment in your life? If things in your life worked out for your good, would you feel like a success? If you felt that you had done something that God told you to do, would you feel that you successfully accomplished His task?

If you lived a long and healthy life, would you consider this to be a successful achievement?
And if people around you admired and respected you, would you consider yourself to be successful among your peers?
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The Many Faces of Success

Joshua was successful because God gave him victories in battle. David was successful because he was called a man after Gods own heart. Paul was successful in starting many churches. Solomon was successful in that God blessed him with wisdom and a peaceful kingdom. Moses was successful because God spoke with him directly, used him mightily, and answered his prayers. John was successful because He was the conduit through which the world would learn the depths of Christs love. Some of the people mentioned above were financially wealthy. Some were not. However, the common denominator in their success was their love and their obedience to God. As you read through the Bible, you will find countless examples of successful servants, just like these.

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The Many Faces of Success

In the Scriptures, there are many synonyms for the word success.
Here are a few of them: Receiving Gods provisions Answered prayer A long life Good health Being rich in faith Inheriting Gods promises Being an heir of Gods covenant Fulfilling Gods plan Peace, joy, and victories in life

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Does God Want Us to be Successful?

Psalms 35:27,Psalms 118:25,Psalms 106:5,Jeremiah 29:11-12 Psalms 68:6,Psalms 37:22,Proverbs 8:20, Psalms 37:4,Nehemiah 2:20 Psalms 71:20,21,Job 36:11,Ecclesiastes 5:19, Third John 1:2, Leviticus 26:4 , Jeremiah 31:3 ,Jeremiah 33:6 ,Joel 2:26 ,Zephaniah 2:7 ,Zephaniah 2:7 , Psalms 107:38 ,Proverbs 10:22 ,Isaiah 30:23 ,Psalms 67:6, 7

The Bible: The Role of Gods Word in Success

1. 2. 3. 4. Read Gods Word, and get to know Him Meditate on what He says Do everything He tells you to do Tell others about Him

Joshua 1:8, Psalms 1:2,3, Proverbs 16:20, Isaiah 48:17,18

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Faith: Where Success Begins

you have only four things to do in the household of God: 1) 2) 3) 4) to to to to know and love God; believe what He says, when He says it; obey Him, and love others.

Hebrews 11:6 - Without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.
Proverbs 28:20,James 1:6, Matthew 17:20, Genesis. 18:14, Psalms 37:9 Psalms - 71:14, Matthew 21:21, Mark 9:23, Mark 11:22-23, Luke 17:6, Second Corinthians 5:7, Proverbs 13:2, Proverbs 23:7, Ecclesiastes 11:6, Luke 18:29,30

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Trust: Its Not What You Trust - its Who

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Prayer: The First Act of Faith

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Prayer: The First Act of Faith

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Good Success

Joshua Chapter 1, Gives the commissioning of Joshua to take Moses place in leading Gods people into the Promised land. The Lord tells him to be strong and of a good couragebe thou strong and very courageousobserve to do according to all the lawturn not from itmeditate therein day and nightfor then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have GOOD SUCCESS. The word success here means to be expert, prudent, skillful etc.

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Good Success
GOOD SUCCESS is knowing where you are going when you die. What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? 1 John 5:10-13 If you do not know you are going to heaven when you die, you are a great failure. GOOD SUCCESS is walking with God in this life. There is no success like the success of walking with God day by day. It means to be in harmony with, be in step with, to be close to. 2 Cor. 6:16-18 GOOD SUCCESS is having the privilege of winning others to Christ. Prov. 11:30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise. One of the greatest successes of the Christian life! GOOD SUCCESS is winning the battle with the world, flesh, and devil. 2 Cor.10:3-6; Rom. 12:17-21 GOOD SUCCESS is knowing and doing the will of God. This is one of the great failures in life. The person who fails at this fails at Good Success. Eph. 5:17 GOOD SUCCESS is to be clean (Spiritually) , faithful, ready and watching for 23 Christs return. 1 Thess. 5: 5-9

Good Success
When King David was about to die, he gave his son, Solomon, the following advice? 1 Kings 2:3 (1 Kings 3:1-14). (Proverbs 3:1-4) THE SUCCESS AND FAILURES OF KING HEZEKIAH (11 KINGS 18:1-7)

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